Fastener.



P. EAGLE.

. PASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 24, 1914.

1,1 19,073, Patented De0.1,1914.

A TTOHIVEY.

THE NORRIS PETERS C0.. PHOYOLITHO.4 WASHING TON. D. C.

provements in Fasteners, of which the fol- PETER EAGLE,

FASTENER.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, PETER EAGLE, a subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at Worcester, in the county of Worcester. and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Imlowing is 'a specification.

. and Fig. dis a plan of cally opposite points and bent This invention relates more particularly to fasteners for securing the endsof shoe strings and other lacing cords, and has for its objects to provide a device of this character which will be neat, rable; to provide springs for .frictionally holding the lace or cord close to the surface to which the device is'applied; to'guide said springs at their free ends to prevent" lateral displacement thereof; to provide a structure readily stamped from sheet metal; to secure simplicity of construction and operation, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a plan of a fastener embodying my invention mounted in operative position; Fig. 2 is a transverse section, thereof on line AA;\Fig. 3 is'a similar section on line BB of tion on line C-Cof Fig.3; Fig. 5 is a sectional plan view on line D-.D of Fig. 4,

the device unfolded.

In the specific embodiment of the 1nvention illustrated in said drawings, the. reference numeral 1 indicates aplate or head preferably of sheet metal and disk-shaped. Spaced from and parallel to said head is a base plate 2,. means being provided for holding said base plate and lation to each other, said means being here shown as comprising a pair of arms 5, 5

formed integrally with the head at diametriatthe edge of the head radially inward under said head to lie fiatwise against the same. At a distance from the edge of the head, the arms are bent transversely thereto, as at 6, toward the base plate 2, and an end lip 7 on each of said armsprojects through and is bent under the base plate. For preventing the base plate. from moving toward the head, said arms are constructed wider for the transverse portion 6 between the lip and the opposite end by forming said transverse portion Specification of Letters Patent. App1ication filed April 24, 1914.

efiicient and du-- Fig. 1; Fig. 4: is a similar secthe body portion of shoe or other article 12 head in fixed re or wonon s'rn'a, MASSACHUSETTS.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914. Serial N 0. 834,038.

with wings 8, 8 upon opposite sides of each of said arms. Said wings preferably are turned perpendicularly inward toward the center of the device thus forming the transverse portion into channel shape. Midway oftheperiphery of the head between saidarms 5, 5 I provide another pair ofarms 9, 9 of similar construction to the arms 5, 5 above described having channel portions '10, 10 transverse to the head but having lips or outer extremities 11', 11 which will not only pass {through the base plate 2 but are adapted to project through the material of the shoe or other article 12 and be then turned over flat-wise of the material to clench thedevice to such article. In the construction of the device it is preferable to space the transverse portions of the arms from each other in such a manner that the inner or free edge of each wing is adjacent the inner edge of the nearest wing of the adjacent arm, and thus in crosssection the several channel members form a cross, each adjacent pair of wings forming an exterior channel or guideway 13.

Leaf springs 14 preferably integral with the head or plate 1, are disposed at intervals around the periphery of said head, here shown as midway between adjacent arms 5, 9 said springs being bent radially inward and curving convexly downwardtoward the base, plate 2, the free, ends extending into the guideways 13. Said springs may move resiliently toward and away from the base plllate but are not readily displaced latera i i v In operation the device is mounted in position byinserting the lips or outer extremities 11, 11 through the material of the and clamping the same in place. Preferably, when used with a shoe, for example, one of my improved fasteners is secured to each of the flaps of the shoe near their upper and adjacent edges, in place ofthe usual upper eyelet or the like. The shoe is then laced as usual through the remaining eyelets and each string twisted one or more times around its respective fastener, In so twisting the string around the fastener the leaf springs 14 are forced upward toward the head 1 and the resiliency of said springs bearing upon the string will clamp the string against the base plate.

In the drawings I have shown a dome-like cap secured upon the outer side of the head 1, but I do not'restrict myself to any particular kind nor shape of cap as the same is for ornamental purposes and may be va-' ried at will or omitted entirely without departing from the spirit or scope of my invention as set forth in the appended claims when construed in the light of the prior art.

Having thus described the invention what I claim is,- t

1. In a fastener, a base plate, and a head plate substantially parallel to said base plate having arms integral therewith about its periphery, all said arms being directed between said head plate and base plate and arranged around the entire periphery alternately as spacing members for said head and base plates and as springs adapted to press a string or the like toward the base plate, thereby gripping the same.

2. In a fastener, a head plate having leaf springs extending radially inward, means spaced from the periphery of said head Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. 0.

said head plate from an guidewavs into which plate for spacing article, and having the ends of said springs may project thereby preventing lateral displacement of said springs. V

3. In a fastener, a head plate having arms with portions extending transversely of said head plate at a distance from the periphery (Commissioner of Patents, 

